Friday, June 27, 2008

The Last Man on Earth To Start a Blog

That would be me. Not exactly an early adopter, to be sure. For some time I have been posting under the nome de Internet "DaveinHackensack" on a few different investing websites, mainly to organize my own thoughts and solicit feedback -- positive or negative -- on ideas. For most of this time, I resisted starting my own blog because it seemed pointless: the web has a surfeit of blogs already, so who needs to see mine? What caused me to change my mind was the gradual realization that I could profit more from correspondence with a handful of intelligent, intellectually flexible individuals than larger forums full of soi disant contrarians. My hope is that this blog will attract such a handful of correspondents.

As for the title of this blog, Hackensack is where I live. It's also the name of the river that runs alongside the city. Inspired by the example of The Atlantic, I figured I'd name my blog after this local, smaller body of water.

I plan to write about investing, politics (occasionally -- I am a recovering political junkie), and various other subjects that I find of interest, and -- more importantly -- think others might find of interest. Comments and criticisms will be welcomed and encouraged.

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I worked for them for a few years back in the 1990s, when they were still Alliance Capital. I was an "internal wholesaler" -- essentially, the junior partner to an outside sales rep (the "external wholesaler"/regional VP) who promoted Alliance's mutual funds and other products to financial professionals in a West Coast territory. I left to become the director of business development for an Internet-based financial services start-up (that's still around, but hasn't gone public), and then after that worked for a couple of years as an external wholesaler/regional VP for a niche investment company that is smaller and less well-known than Alliance.

I did a little bit of stock investing on my own when I was at Alliance, but the compliance issues involved when you work at a financial company (e.g., having to get compliance approval before every buy and sell) can be a pain. I didn't get a chance to really drill down into stock investing on my own until the last couple of years, when I haven't been on the payroll of any such firm.

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